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Kamen Rider Stronger Actor Shigeru Araki Passes Away

Shigeru Araki, lead actor in the live-action Kamen Rider Stronger series, passed away on Saturday, April 14 at 5:02 p.m. He was 63. He was admitted to a hospital in Tokyo for pneumonia symptoms but was found to have an aspergillosis infection. Aspergillosis is a lung infection caused by exposure to mold in compost, grain, and decaying vegetation.

R.I.P. Martin Poll

Veteran movie and TV producer Martin Poll died between Friday night and early Saturday morning *last week* of natural causes at a care facility on the Upper Westside in New York City. He was 89. Poll was nominated for an Academy Award as producer for Best Picture of 1968 for The Lion In Winter, which won three Oscars — Best Actress Katharine Hepburn (tied with Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl), Best Original Score for John Barry and Best Adapted Screenplay for James Goldman — out of seven nominations.

"I may be unconscious, but at least I still look good!" - - Me (at the Halfling Musketeers game GenCon '06)

On one hand, taking away their weapons is a dead giveaway that they will need them. On the other hand, by the time conflict starts the players will already have opened the rulebooks and found the parts that deal with bare-handed combat, performing disarm moves, and using improvised weapons. Players may blunder through dialog with shocking ineptitude, forget the name of the country they are in, or get confused about which side they are on, but once it comes time to roll for initiative they all turn into Sun Tzu. - Shamus Young DM of the Rings

Jonathan Frid - DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

Jonathan Frid, the actor who portrayed vampire Barnabas Collins on the late 60s/early 70s soap opera Dark Shadows passed away on April 14th at the age of 87. I grew up watching Dark Shadows with my grandmother (one of my earliest memories) and I even went as Barnabas for Halloween one year, so I was particularly saddened to learn this today. My thoughts and prayers are with Mr. Frid's family and friends at this time.